Rajneesh Quotes

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.